Collaborators
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Stephanie Dolrenry - Carnivore Conservationist, APP
Stephanie has completed her first year of PhD studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on lion and spotted hyena conflict in Maasai communities and the link between carnivore predation on livestock and retaliatory poisoning. Stephanie has a National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and a Kaplan Fellowship. She has a Wildlife Conservation and Management degree from Missouri State University and has spent the past ten years as a field biologist in the US, the Caribbean, Hawaii and Kenya. [More]
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Leela Hazzah - Lion Guardians Director, Carnivore Conservationist, APP
Leela obtained her MSc from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has completed her first year of PhD studies there. Her research focuses on the motivations behind lion killing and attitudes of Maasai towards carnivores. She has a Biology degree from Denison University, is fluent in Swahili, and has worked as a GIS analyst and researcher in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Leela has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, a Kaplan Fellowship, a Fellowship from Wings WorldQuest and a Jordan Prize for African Studies. [More]
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Benjamin Leduc-Mills - Computer Scientist and Programmer Extraordinaire
Ben began studying design and digital media in 2003 and received a Masters Degree from NYU in Interactive Telecommunications in 2008. Ben is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works under Dr. Michael Eisenberg in the Craft Technology Lab. His current research interests revolve around how to make computation and construction accessible, practical, sustainable, and fun for 'beginners' regardless of age or socioeconomic background. [More]
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Pravin Sathe - UX, IA, Interaction Designer
Pravin holds a Master's degree ('08) from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (NYU). A graduate of NYU's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) he received his B.A. in 2003, double majoring in Politics and Economics. He is a former NYC Teaching Fellow having taught mathematics at Washington Irving High School from 2003 to 2005. He was most recently an Innovation Researcher at EdLab, Teachers College, Columbia University and Interaction Designer at HUGE. [More]
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Doug Thistlethwaite - Artist and Telecommunications Researcher
Doug holds a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from Occidental College in LA and is completing his masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. Unable to sit still, his professional background ranges from documentary film and motion graphics to architectural metal fabrication and large scale public art. He is currently researching applications of Open Source GSM technology in wildlife conservation, human rights activism and interactive art. [More]
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Raphael Zollinger - Sculptor and Mold-Maker
Raphael Zollinger received his BFA from Pratt Institute and his Masters degree from ITP, NYU. He has been doing prototyping and fabrication in New York for the past 10 years. His focus is in sustainable energy, data logging and real time data visualization. He has produced circuits to monitor environmental and solar data for SMIT as well as inDOOR energy harvesting. He has taught at Pratt and SVA for 3 years in foundation 3D. [More]